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| Robert |
Tragedy struck as a 19 month old
baby boy, Robert Lynch died after he crawled from the back seat of an automatic
car and got his head trapped in the window as it closed.
The 19 month old baby boy from
Zwolle, Louisiana, was sitting in the vehicle without a seatbelt on as his
mother said they were “only driving a short distance.”
However, when Denuka Lynch, 26,
parked the vehicle and took the keys out of the ignition, the window started to
roll up, lodging his neck between the window of the SUV and the door frame
According to KLSA News 12, the
first police on the scene performed CPR after finding the boy unconscious on
the floor with his mother beside him.
He was still not breathing and had
no pulse by the time paramedics arrived.
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| The mother |
The toddler was transferred to
Sabine Medical Center then flown to University Health in Shreveport, where he
was placed in the pediatric intensive care unit.
However the boy was pronounced
brain dead and the decision was taken to remove him from life support the next
day.
Investigators would later learn
that the boy’s mother, Miss Lynch, had just left a family gathering and had
placed her son in the backseat of her car without restraining him.
She told investigators that after
she parked her car she noticed that the back window was rolling up, trapping
her son.
No arrest has been made in the
case that's still under investigation by the Zwolle Police Department and
Sabine Parish Coroner's office.
Lynch’s family say this was a
tragic accident and is in no way reflective of her parenting skills.
Danny Lynch, the victim's
grandfather, told KLSA: 'This is just something that happened and as a family
we are going to stand together,
The boy’s father, Mike Garner,
told the station the boy's mother her child in harm’s way. 'I know she wouldn’t
do anything to Robert,' he said. 'We all loved him'.
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| The Automatic Car |
Police have not yet filed any
charges in relation to the death of the youngster. However they have said the
investigation is still ongoing and have taken a drug test from Miss Lynch
A coroner from Sabine Parish
Coroner's office confirmed he died from positional asphyxia.
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